The debilitating curse of dementia

By Stanley Collymore

It’s extremely hard trying to remember events

from the past; and even the faces, names

and common situations surrounding

the numerous people and places

I once knew familiarly and previously, of

course, in an instance could fully and

happily retell their diverse history

and personal stories have, alas,

now obviously and firmly

abandoned me as well.

And it’s not just the past, whether recent or

distant, that is consistently a recurrent

problem, since the present too is at

times a complete mystery to me

also, as overall I feel entirely

powerless in trying to make some sense of

it all and hopefully decipher with what

residual clarity that my involuntarily

befuddled mind can muster what

is basically going on, and how

come that my very existence

that beforehand was wholly

positive and stimulatingly

vibrant – and all this in

a human model which

was itself completely

and inspiringly compos mentis

could, in effect, become so

disastrously debilitating

as what it now most

unquestionably is!

And in this process of doing so actually

create a puzzling scenario where this

prolonged dementia that I’m now

suffering from, effectively in absentia of

my genuine presence rendering me

a non-person – has literally and

inevitably, it culpably seems,

thrown my extant, human 

existence into oblivion.

© Stanley V. Collymore

23 November 2019.

Author’s Remarks:

Dementia is among, and increasingly so, the major takers of human life both physically and psychologically within the United Kingdom. And the debilitating effects that it disastrously and apathetically inflicts in the most unceremonious manner on all of its hapless victims is quite dreadful and disheartening to see.

And while the so far known causes of dementia are too detailed to be outlined here – please do your own research on this matter – it’s none the less worth remembering or else initially acquainting one’s self with the clear-cut evidence that the largely sedentary lifestyle, quite disgusting cases of obesity coupled with a marked lack of intellectual agility across Britain do collectively play a critical and substantial part in the rampant and devastating nature of this widespread and killer disease.